The significance of ileocolonic lymphoid nodular hyperplasia in children with autistic spectrum disorder.

摘要

What are we to make of the paper by Wakefield and colleagues entitled 'The significance of ileo-colonic lymphoid nodular hyperplasia in children with autistic spectrum disorder' in the August issue of the journal? There are a number of issues that may be important in its evaluation.The children studied were a series apparently referred to the Department of Paediatric Gastroenterology at the Royal Free Hospital in London. It should be explained why neither the lead clinician, in charge of these patients, nor the consultant paediatric gastroenterologists who performed the endoscopies and generated the data on lymphoid hyperplasia are listed as co-authors, although these data have previously been published in abstract form in 2003 under all their names ?